Steer brings quite a few death metal sensibilities into the mix, particularly on songs such as “Unchallenged Hate”, “Emotional Suffocation” and “Mentally Murdered”, which offer an even sharper edge to the band’s already cacophonous repertoire. It’s honestly a thing of beauty, and genre defining. Speaking of the album’s successes, they begin with Bill Steer’s guitar work: a weapon so powerful, more twisted than a politician’s shit ridden speech, it cuts into the mix like a chainsaw through a particularly stubborn tree (the tree is also on fire). Looking back, it’s absolutely insane that this album managed to top the UK’s indie charts… I guess we can start calling Napalm Death a successful indie band now. They catapulted themselves into the annals of extreme music history, and dare I say, even put their label, Earache, on the map. Released in 1988, FETO was the moment when Napalm Death firmly stamped their mark on the grindcore scene. FETO cemented Napalm Death's status as a grindcore powerhouse, leaving a trail of sonic destruction in its wake that, ultimately, makes you question the fragility of our societal existence. Napalm Death's "From Enslavement to Obliteration" is the aural equivalent of a politically charged hurricane that's hellbent on obliterating your eardrums: a nihilistic circus, where the clowns have ultimately decided to show everyone the middle finger and set everything on fire, and the audience is both terrified and oddly fascinated.
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